War deaths

The page records military and civilian deaths. Please read the notes below the table.

Year	Date	Forename(s)	Surname	Age or date of birth	Country	Burial or memorial	Rank	Service	Link
1855	18 Jun	Lacy Walter Giles	Yea	20 May 1808	Russia (Crimea)	Sebastopol	Lieutenant Colonel	Royal Fusiliers
1915	14 Aug	Arthur James	Yeo		Greece	East Mudros Military Cemetery	Private	Welsh Regiment	Arthur James Yeo
1915	1 Nov	Charles	Yeo		India			Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry	Henry Yeo and Jane Dunn
1915		John	Yeo		at sea		HMS Goliath	Royal Navy
1915	11 Mar	John	Yeo		France			Devonshire Regiment	John Yeo of the Devonshire Regiment
1915	19 Apr	Rupert Cholmeley Yea	Dering	1883 [born in Ireland]	Belgium (Ypres)	Poperinghe Military Cemetery	Captain	King’s Own Scottish Borderers	Rupert Cholmeley Yea Dering
1915		William Carter Yews	Yews		France
1916	31 May	Claude	Yeo	1870	at Sea (Jutland)		HMS Indefatigable	Royal Navy	Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Higgins
1916	20 Jul	Claude Septimus Maitland	Yeo	1872 [born in Australia]	France	Fromelles Military Cemetery		Australian Infantry	George Shapland Yeo and Elizabeth Pender
1916	3 Sep	Edward	Yeo	1896	France	Thiepval War Memorial	Private	Liverpool Regiment	John Edward Yeo and Charlotte Emma Allam
1916		Harry	Peachey [born Henry Yewes]	1891	France (Somme)	Thiepval War Memorial		Lancashire Fusiliers	Harry Peachey (formerly Yewes) of the Lancashire Fusiliers
1916		Hubert Claud Cater	Yeo	1895		Plymouth Naval Memorial		Royal Navy	Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Higgins
1916		John Henry	Yeo		at sea		HMS Tiger	Royal Navy
1916		John Louis	Yeo		at sea		HMS Defence	Royal Navy
1916	19 Sep	Sydney Thomas	Yeo		France		Lance Corporal	London Regiment	Philip Yeo and Elizabeth Hallett
1916	21 Oct	William	Yaw	1889	France (Somme)	Meaulte Military Cemetery	Driver and Gunner	Royal Field Artillery	William Yaw of the Royal Field Artillery
1917		Albert	Yeo		France		Private	Welsh Regiment
1917		Alfred E	Yeo		France		Private	Machine Gun Corps
1917		Arthur T	Yeo		France		Private	London Regiment
1917	16 Aug	Harold William	Yea	1892	Belgium		Private	Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers	William Henry Cleave Yea and Martha Ann Davey
1917		Hubert C C	Yeo		France		Temporary 2nd Lieutenant	Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1917		James Frederick Jesse	Yeo		France		Temporary 2nd Lieutenant	Highland Light Infantry
1917	25 May	Lloyd Garfield	Yeo	1898 [born in Canada]	Kent			Canadian Reserve Cavalry Regiment	James Yeo and Elizabeth Braund
1917		William Richard	Yeo		France		Driver	Royal Engineers	John Yeo and Sarah Kelly
1917	26 Oct	William Wallace	Yeo	2 Sep 1895	France		Private	Royal Marines Light Infantry
1918		Arthur F	Yeo		France		Private	Royal West Kent Regiment
1918	4 Nov	David John	Yeo	1898	France	Vis-en-Artois Cemetery	Private	Welsh Regiment	Thomas Yeo and Mary Davis
1918	16 Jul	Frederick George	Yeo	20	France	Mont Huon Military Cemetery	Pioneer	Royal Engineers
1918		Henry	Yoe		France		Private	Labour Corps
1918	30 Aug	Thomas Burton	Yeo	19	France	Hem Farm Military Cemetery, Monacu	Private	The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
1918		William	Yeo		France		Sapper	Royal Engineers
1918		William A	Yeo		France		Private	Durham Light Infantry
1918	16 Jul	William James	Yeo	8 Oct 1886	at sea		Stoker, 1st Class, HMS Anchusa	Royal Navy
1919	26 Jun	William	Yeo	27 Apr 1895		Weston Mill Cemetery, Plymouth	Acting Leading Stoker, HMS Iron Duke	Royal Navy
1939	14 Oct	Arthur Leonard	Hussey-Yeo	25 Oct 1910	at sea		Able Seaman, HMS Royal Oak	Royal Navy	Joseph Greek Yeo and Jane Matthews
1940	12 Nov	Charles Henry	Yeo	1869	Lambeth, London		civilian		Charles Henry Yeo
1940	2 Dec	Donald	Yeo	14 Jun 1919	at sea	Chatham War Memorial	Seaman, HMS Forfar	Royal Navy	Henry Yeo and Catherine Ann Spencer Beare
1940	29 May	Richard Percy Yeo	Cross	1914	Kent	Herne Bay Cemetery	Flight Lieutanant	235 Squadron, Coastal Command	Richard Percy Yeo Cross
1941	17 Jun	Amery Yeo	Evans	1910		Marham, Norfolk	Pilot Officer	115 Squadron, Royal Air Force	Amery Yeo Evans
1941	8 Dec	Leslie William	Yea	1919	Northumberland		Aircraftman 2nd Class	Royal Air Force	Leslie William Yea
1941	29 May	Thomas Cyril	Yeo	9 Dec 1919	at sea		Able Seaman, HMS Hereward	Royal Navy
1941	26 Nov	William David	Yeo	1917	Libya	Tobruk War Cemetery	Lieutenant	Royal Tank Regiment	William David Yeo
1942	22 Jul	Arthur Thomas	Yeo	1918	Netherlands	Amersfoort Cemetery	Pilot Officer	158 Squadron, Royal Air Force	Arthur Thomas Yeo
1942	2 Jul	Cecil James	Yeo	44		Radlet, Hertfordshire	Lieutenant Colonel	East Surrey Regiment
1942	2 Oct	Charles Henry	Yeo	1912 [born in Australia]	New Guines			Australian Army	Thomas Yeo and Elizabeth Mason
1942	23 Jul	Douglas Henry	Yeo	1921		Runnymede War Memorial	Sergeant	Royal Air Force	John Yeo and Sarah Kelly
1942		Lye W	Yeo				Private	Royal Army Medical Corps
1943	23 Nov	Arnold William Henry	Atyeo	23	Italy	Bari War Cemetery	Sergeant	114 Squadron, Royal Air Force
1943	17 May	Gordon Arthur	Yeo	9 Jun 1922	Netherlands	Bergen General Cemetery	Sergeant	617 Squadron, Royal Air Force	Gordon Arthur Yeo
1943	28 Mar	Leslie David	Hussey-Yeo	1915		Plymouth Naval Memorial	Able Seaman, HM Submarine Thunderbolt	Royal Navy	Joseph Greek Yeo and Jane Matthews
1943	8 Apr	Louis John	Yeo			Rheinberg War Cemetery		44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, Royal Air Force
1943	29 Oct	Matthew Barnabas	Yeo	1910	at sea (off Madeira)	Tower Hill Memorial	1st Radio Officer, HMS Bullmouth	Royal Navy
1943	17 Jul	Michael Thomas Russell	Yeo	10 May 1920	at sea (between Italy and Sicily)	Plymouth Naval Memorial	Sub-Lieutenant, HM Motor Torpedo Boat 316	Royal Navy
1943	28 Jul	Ronald Bernard	Yeo	1920	Thailand (prisoner of war camp)	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery	Signalman	Royal Corps of Signals
1943	24 Aug	William Hector John	Yeo	1922		Runnymede War Memorial	Flying Officer	90 Squadron, Royal Air Force
1943	7 Aug	William Stanley	Yeo	1920	Sicily	Catania War Cemetery	Private	Durham Light Infantry
1944	12 Jan	Charles Ernest	Yeo	[unknown]	Malta	Malta Memorial	Flying Officer	108 Squadron, Royal Air Force
1944	6 Jun	Daniel	Yeo	12 Jun 1915 [born in Canada]	France (Normandy)	Canadian War Cemetery, Beny-sur-Mer	Warrant Officer	Royal Regina Rifles	Daniel Yeo
1944	24 Jun	Frederick Charles	Yeo	27 Aug 1917	France (Normandy)	Bayeux Memorial	Trooper	Royal Armoured Corps
1944	21 Sep	Frederick George Wilson [death recorded as Frederick George William]	Yeo	1925	Netherlands	Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery	Driver	Royal Army Service Corps	Joseph Yeo and Sarah Thomas
1944	22 Oct	John Maurice Macfarlane	Yeo	1916	Belgium	Geel War Memorial	2nd Lieutenant	Royal Armoured Corps
1944	1 Dec	Minne Ada	Yeo [née Swain]	52	Essex		civilian		Minnie Ada Yeo
1944		Richard Daniel	Yeo		France
1944	12 Feb	William James	Yeo	15 Jul 1904	at sea	Plymouth War Memorial	Stoker 2nd Class, HMS Lanka	Royal Navy
1945	31 Jan	Cyril Henry	Yeo	1912	at sea (Mediterranean)	Bari War Cemetery	Able Seaman	HMS President III	Robert Yeo and Elizabeth Elliot
1945	10 Jun	George Norman	Yeo	1916	India	Madras War Cemetery	Sergeant	Royal Artillery
1945		George William	Yeo	1922 [born in Canada]	Netherlands			Canadian Army	Thomas Charles Yeo and Zeolina Pearl Harris
1945	13 Feb	John Robert	Yeo	1920	Netherlands	Milsbeek War Cemetery	Gunner	Royal Artillery
1945	18 Jul	Thomas Gordon	Yeo	28 Feb 1921	Macassar, Dutch East Indies (prisoner of war camp)		Marine, HMS Exeter	Royal Navy
1945	26 Sep	Wilfred Yeo	Mountain	23 [born in Canada]	Canada	Summerside, Prince Edward Island	Sergeant	Royal Canadian Artillery	Wilfred Yeo Mountain
Year	Date	Forename(s)	Surname	Age or date of birth	Country	Burial or memorial	Rank	Service	Link

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